Tag Archives: Windows

Laptops batteries run out somewhat more quickly than tablet alternatives. However, there’s a number of ways that you can give your laptop battery a boost. Check out the freeware Battery Optimizer software with which you can ...

Everyone knows that the biggest problem with Windows 8 is its confusion between the legacy desktop and the touch “Modern” apps environment. It’s also the thing that has created so much hatred for Windows 8. Final...

Making a Windows that can run on every device is a big goal for Microsoft in years. With Windows 10, this vision is shaping clearly. In the latest build, 9926, you can see there’s a notifications center just like the one on Window...

This article covered how you can set up a mute hotkey with NirCmd by adding a shortcut to the desktop. However, with VolControl you can adjust volume settings with hotkeys without any extra desktop shortcuts. In addition, the soft...

Start menu is one thing Microsoft has really focused on in Windows 10. It has been changed constantly in each preview build. You may remember in the last build, 9879, you can pull the edges of the Start menu to resize it in two di...

In a previous article, we’ve discovered the way to show hidden redesign system tray clock in Windows 10 build 9926. It’s not surprising that there’re many other things that are hidden by Microsoft because they’re still in developi...

You can download software with any browser. However, as an alternative you can also download with separate third-party packages. Among those programs is the freeware File Downloader.
File Downloader is a program you can add to Win...

You may notice that Windows 10 is bringing big changes to the desktop, especially on the user interface. It’s clear that Microsoft wants to unify everything under its Modern design language. One of them is the system tray clock. I...

As a beta operation system, Windows 10 Technical Preview changes constantly from build to build. In the latest build 9926, Quick Access is basically the Home location in previous builds. Some of you might already knew that Quick A...

For some of you who don’t know what Quick Access is, it’s just a name change of Home location in previous builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview (TP).
Since its first appearance, Quick Access/Home makes many users worry about thei...

The Desktop Doc adware is a nasty infection that comes inside of other files and packages that you might have installed thinking they were harmless. Generally, untrusted third-party links that claim to be something they are not ar...

As a website that produces thousands of words of content by the day and it solely supported by advertising review, nothing gripes us more than adware. Advertising doesn’t have a great image generally. Usually people will say...

Numeric keypads are handy if you have lots of numbers to enter in a document. However, not all keyboards include a numeric keypad. Nevertheless, you can still use a numeric keypad with the virtual keyboard in Windows.
To open Wind...

In build 9926, Windows 10 Technical Preview (TP) again redesigns its Start Menu. However, the basic structure is still there: on the left is a list of recently used apps, and on the right is Windows 8-like Start Screen. In this si...

Windows doesn’t include any options to save window layouts. However, you can still save layouts of software windows on the desktop with the TaskLayout program. That saves a current layout of windows which you can open with a...